Wellbeing Undersecretary Gerardo Bayugo told a news meeting that the Zika-contaminated lady, whom he didn't recognize, has no history of travel abroad, including that she presumably obtained the infection locally.
He likewise said the illness does not represent a general wellbeing hazard now, including that the division has not affirmed any nearby transmission.
He said this could be an instance of sporadic transmission. The lady's better half has yet to be tried for the infection, he included.
"Starting now we have no affirmation of any nearby transmission," Bayugo said. By and by, he said the administration is nearly observing the circumstance.
The wellbeing office has observed no less than five Zika-disease cases following 2012.
"These (five cases) did not change over into an episode. Also, we trust this (new) one is sporadic that won't decipher (into a flare-up) like what is being experienced somewhere else," Bayugo said.
The Philippine government throughout the weekend issued a counseling, asking Filipino voyagers "to play it safe" while staying in Zika-tainted nations.
The Philippine Bureau of Quarantine is additionally keeps on screening arriving travelers for indications of fever, one of the side effects of Zika-tainted individual.
It has asked all arriving travelers to fit-out a wellbeing presentation agenda upon entry and to report or visit any administration wellbeing office in the event that they turn out to be sick with unexplained fever inside seven days from landing.
Wellbeing Secretary Paulyn Jean Rosell-Ubial has likewise exhorted pregnant ladies to maintain a strategic distance from go to nations with reported Zika case and transmission, including that it is exceptionally unsafe for pregnant ladies to get tainted with the Zika infection as this has been connected to birth of infants with serious mind and other neurological deformities including microcephaly.
Zika infection is procured through nibbles from tainted Aedes aegypti mosquitos, the same sort of mosquito that spreads dengue and chikungunya. Basic indications incorporate fever, skin rash, joint agonies and conjunctivitis, the admonitory said.
There is no accessible antibody to keep the mosquito-borne infection. In any case, average specialists said the side effects of Zika infection could be treated with regular torment and fever pharmaceutical, rest and enough water consumption.
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